Publication
Atoms of recognition in human and computer vision. PNAS 113, 2744–2749 (2016).
mirc_author_manuscript_with_figures_and_SI-2.pdf (1.65 MB)
Learning physical parameters from dynamic scenes. Cognitive Psychology 104, 57-82 (2018).
T-Ullman-etal_CogPsych_LearningPhysicalParametersFromDynamicScenes.pdf (3.15 MB)
Bayesian Models of Conceptual Development: Learning as Building Models of the World. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 2, 533 - 558 (2020).
Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics. Trends in Cognitive Science 21, 649 - 665 (2017).
Preprint submitted to Trends in Cognitive Science (17.64 MB)
Effort as a bridging concept across action and action understanding: Weight and Physical Effort in Predictions of Efficiency in Other Agents. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
AI Feynman 2.0: Pareto-optimal symbolic regression exploiting graph modularity. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2020) (2020).
2006.10782.pdf (2.62 MB)
Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions. PLOS Biology 21, e3002366 (2023).
Human Learning in Atari. AAAI Spring Symposium Series (2017).
Tsividis et al - Human Learning in Atari.pdf (844.47 KB)
Hypothesis-Space Constraints in Causal Learning. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) (2015). at <https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0418/index.html>
hypothesis_space_constraints (1).pdf (1.54 MB)
Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces. 9th Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society Columbus, OH, (2015).
Auditory Perception of Material and Force from Impact Sounds. Annual Meeting of Association for Research in Otolaryngology (2017).
Causal inference in environmental sound recognition. Cognition (2021). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104627
Environmental statistics enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Speech and Audio in the Northeast (2016).
A perceptually inspired generative model of rigid-body contact sounds. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) (2019).
Human recognition of environmental sounds is not always robust to reverberation. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
Investigating audition with a generative model of impact sounds. Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (2017).
Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, E7856 - E7865 (2016).
Human inference of force from impact sounds: Perceptual evidence for inverse physics. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
A library of real-world reverberation and a toolbox for its analysis and measurement. Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (2017).
Differentiable physics and stable modes for tool-use and manipulation planning. Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (2018).
ToussaintEtAl_DiffPhysStable.pdf (1.97 MB)
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger. Nature Neuroscience 23, 1597 - 1605 (2020).
s41593-020-00742-z.pdf (5.47 MB)
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans. Nature Human Behaviour (2021). doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01035-y
What if Eye..? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution. arXiv (2025). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15001>
2501.15001v1.pdf (5.2 MB)
Learning abstract structure for drawing by efficient motor program induction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2020) (2020). at <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/hash/1c104b9c0accfca52ef21728eaf01453-Abstract.html>
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